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Since we last spoke, I've passed my first MS exam ( a while ago now, the first SQL Server one ), and done a lot of work to learn Angular ( although I don't use it at work ). I'm planning on learning Mongo next, got the book ready, then I want to get good enough at the minutiae of HTML5 to pass THAT MS exam. At the same time, I am vaguely aware of newer C# features that I wish I could find the time to understand more fully. I've used async/await because I have to, and I use dynamic a fair bit, but some of the new stuff where you can pass a code snippet as a method parameter, I would love to really 'get' that, but I don't yet.

I learn a little bit of everything I don't know that seems popular just so I have a general idea of what it is and how it might fit into a project...I only dig deep into it when I need it...there's just too much stuff always coming out to be considered 'expert' at all of it...a lot of it winds up on the trash heap in a few years anyway.

I usually do this learning on weekends and the odd weekday when I don't have any work to do.

Ah, there's so many frameworks to choose from in the javascript world. Angular does look good. I am totally unconvinced that NoSQL databases are actually necessary and even helpful, so I'll be interested to hear more about your thoughts on Mongo.

Christian Graus wrote:

where you can pass a code snippet as a method parameter,

Lambdas are the cat's meow, I use them all the time nowadays. Continuation functions are really cool too and absolutely necessary to understand when working in functional programming languages.

But it is really nice for one line conditionals and a great example of passing a code snippet as a method parameter and using extension methods.

staticbool Then(thisbool b, Action f)
{
if (b) { f(); }
return b;
}

Christian Graus wrote:

How does everyone else find time to keep up to date ?

Mostly I wait until someone pays me to do something that requires a particular technology. Otherwise, my time is one of the few things I "own" and therefore spend a lot of it investigating my own interesting ideas and technologies.